Pastoral Resources

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

Hence the spiritual weariness of the conscientious mother - you're always finding out just one more vital tidbit.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.